Liu also knew that the situation of his mother's family was not very good, and it was already good to be able to save one or two taels of silver a year, but his health was not good, and his mother subsidized himself from time to time, and when the child's father had an accident, the family had already taken two taels over...... These ten taels of silver, my mother didn't know how to borrow it.

She pushed her purse back and said, "The mud of this house can still be used, as long as you go up the hill and cut some trees to repair the beams of the house, and then get some straw to go up, you can live in it." Mother, it's not easy for our family, my brother and sister-in-law have saved a little money by saving money and using it well, how can they make up for me, the daughter who got married? ”

Liu's sister-in-law, Han, grabbed the purse from her mother-in-law's hand, forcibly stuffed it into her sister-in-law's hand, and said, "You will live in the house for a long time in the future, and if you want to repair it, you can take care of it." I've seen it, and the kang in several rooms can't be used. And this fence wall...... My sister's family is far away from the village, and with their backs to the mountains, the fence wall is not safe. If you calculate it like this, ten taels of silver may not be enough! Take it quickly, what is polite to the family! ”

The second daughter-in-law, Hu's face has been elongated, and the family has such a little family background, so that her mother-in-law brought it to her sister-in-law. The water spilled by the girl who got married, how can there be the truth of the mother's old subsidy? Mother-in-law's words, she didn't dare to talk back, and when she heard her sister-in-law's good offer, she couldn't help but pout, turned her head and gently "cut ......".

When the second Liu Han heard it, he frowned and glared at her warningly, with an expression of "You mother-in-law dare to say something unpleasant, you look good when you go home". Hu's is cold and selfish, but Xiaocao's second uncle can control her, she knows that her man is very filial, and she only dares to mix with her concubine on weekdays, and she doesn't dare to say a word in front of her mother-in-law.

was glared at by his own man, Hu Shi immediately became honest, lowered his head and didn't dare to let go of a fart.

The third Liu Hao said with a smile while removing a bag of cellared sweet potatoes from the ox cart: "Sister! You just take it, if you don't accept it, the old lady will be angry! ”

The Liu family was still about to excuse herself, but Yu Xiaocao stepped forward to take it on her behalf and said, "Mother, this is the intention of grandma and uncle, you can accept it." Besides, we do need this money too, and if you don't want to go, you can borrow it from us, and then pay it back to your grandmother when you earn the money. ”

"Yes, yes! Yunzi, you don't have an idea yet! This is Xiaolian, I haven't seen a lot of white in a few days. Yao took Xiaocao's hand and kept praising it.

Yu Xiaocao smiled and said, "Grandma, I am Xiaocao, Xiaolian took the small stone up the mountain to collect firewood." ”

Yu Xiaocao and Xiaolian are twins, and they are naturally similar in appearance. It's just that Xiaocao was born with congenital deficiencies and was thinner and paler. As for Xiaolian, she has been working behind the Liu family since she was a child, and her skin is darker. The two of them stand together, and it is easy to recognize. However, after drinking Lingshi water for half a year, Xiaocao's body has become a lot stronger, and Xiaolian's skin is whiter than before, and the two of them are becoming more and more indistinguishable.

Yao Shi looked at Xiaocao, who could run and jump, and said to Liu: "Xiaocao, this kid is well, and you have also lost a heart disease." I see, your face is also a little ruddy, recently my mother-in-law is willing to ask you for a doctor? ”

"How could she afford to spend money on me? When I was sick before, she said that I pretended to be and didn't let Cao'er's father help me get a doctor, let alone now? In the past six months, I feel a lot better, and the sea secretly gave me medicine for a winter without telling others. In the past few days, taking care of the child's father, although I am tired, I feel much lighter, I fell asleep on my stomach on the side of the bed that day, and I did not get sick the next day. I think the illness has been cured, mother, don't worry about me. ”

Liu's heart was both happy and strange, if even she fell ill in this family, she really couldn't live.

Yu Xiaocao touched the multicolored stone on his wrist and snickered in his heart.

The Liu brothers first cleaned up the former wood and firewood room, repaired it roughly, and moved the things they brought in. Yao took his two daughters-in-law (the third daughter-in-law had a small child, so she didn't come over if she couldn't get out), and she helped clean up the yard again, and she didn't care about drinking the water, so she drove the ox cart back.

Yao couldn't rest assured, but she knew that her daughter's family of five was crammed into one room, and there was no place to stay, so they had to return to Xishan Village before sunset, so she left a sentence of "I'll see you in two days" and left in a hurry.

The three brothers of the Liu family stayed, preparing to help their sister and brother-in-law (sister and brother-in-law) repair the house before the spring ploughing.

Yu Hai is kind-hearted, if there is anything going on in other families on weekdays, as long as he greets him, he will always be enthusiastic to go over to help, and his popularity in the entire Dongshan Village is very good. Hearing that he was going to clean up the old house, the neighbors rushed to help.

The eldest son of the eldest uncle, Yu Lichun, knew the work of a mason, and he didn't take the work outside, so he was rushed over to help. In the next few days, Yu Lichun took his sons and grandchildren, and he was always the first to the last to leave. The second uncle, Yu Lixia, lives far away, and his body has not been very comfortable recently, so he only sent a son to help.

Yu Hai's bare buttocks played with several good brothers, and they also spent a lot of effort throwing adobe, building earthen walls, and cutting down trees...... It's a lot of fun. Zhao Lihu, who had a fateful friendship with him, and his son Zhao Han, not only sent prey every day, but also came to help on time after returning from hunting. There are also his neighbors and right neighbors, who don't need to be greeted by anyone and come to report every day.

Generally speaking, when you ask someone to help build a house, you have to take care of two meals. These people knew that Yu Hai's family had just been separated, and there was no surplus food at home, so they brought their own dry food every day, and they were unwilling to eat a bite of their family's food. Yu Hai's whole family was moved, and Xiaocao deeply experienced the simplicity and kindness of the ancient people.

The strength of the number of people is great, and the three houses plus the courtyard wall were completed in ten days. Looking at the big yard and the brand-new house, Liu shed tears of joy. The three Xiaocao sisters and brothers were laughing and making trouble in the yard, not to mention how happy they were - they finally had a house of their own......

The Liu brothers filled the kitchen with firewood and cleaned the well in the backyard before leaving. The house was dried for two days, and Yu Hai, whose legs were already able to walk on crutches, moved over with his family.

In the past ten days, except for Lao Yutou and the boss who went to the old mansion every afternoon to help, everyone else didn't show their faces. After the house was built, when Yu Hai feasted the neighbors in the village, Li took his son over.

Whenever someone in the village builds a new house and moves a new house, they must put on a celebration to celebrate. Because the house was built with the help of everyone, most of the materials used to build the house were made of local materials, the adobe was the clay dug by the pond, the beams were cut from the mountains, and the straw was also pieced together by the villagers.

Originally, Xiaocao wanted to buy some green tiles and build a mud tile house like the Yu family's now. But thinking about the limited ten taels of silver in his hand, he dispelled this idea. Once again, I regretted that I had invested all my money in Wednesday's workshop, and comforted myself that the thatched house was not bad, warm in winter and cool in summer......

Alas! This Wednesday is less, the beginning of the spring is busy building a workshop is so busy that his feet do not touch the ground, and he plans to open a treasure house in the capital, going back and forth between the capital and Tanggu Town, and the dragon is not seen at the end. Xiaocao wanted to ask him for help, but he couldn't catch anyone!

Fortunately, the house was built, and it didn't cost a few taels of silver in total. Yu Hai was grateful for the help of the villagers, so he took advantage of the banquet to make some good dishes to express his gratitude.

Hearing that Yu Hai split up and only got two taels of silver, Zhao Orion was angry and guilty in his heart. In order to save him, Yu Hai almost lost his life, and as soon as he killed the blind bear, he went to send three hundred taels to the Yu family, saying that it was left for Yu Hai's brothers to catch medicine and treat their injuries. Unexpectedly, his ruthless father and black-hearted stepmother actually exchanged his son's life for money.

Zhao Orion wanted to rush over to find the old Yu Tou theory, but was stopped by Yu Hai. said that the three hundred taels of silver can be regarded as a return to the Zhang family for their nurturing grace over the years.

Zhao Bufan felt guilty about Yu Hai's brothers in his heart, and often sent some prey to Yu Hai to make up for his body, not to mention, he and his son made great efforts to build a house. For this banquet, he specially went up the mountain to hunt more than a dozen pheasants and hares.

Yu Hai did not refuse, and bought 50 eggs from the neighbor Zhou's family, and went to the market to cut more than ten catties of meat. In late winter and early spring, the greens are also green and yellow, but there are many radishes and cabbages stored in the cellars of every house, as well as dried vegetables dried in autumn. The good ones sent some, and the Liu family went to the market to buy some more.

Yao heard that his daughter was going to have a banquet for the neighbors, and he was afraid that she would not be able to keep busy, so he brought his eldest daughter-in-law over to help on the first day. Seeing the bright courtyard of my daughter's house, the tall courtyard wall, and the row of three houses facing north and south, although the furniture in the house was not ready, it seemed empty, and the family of six did not look crowded.

Xiao Shi took his grandmother's hand and enthusiastically introduced which one was his father's house, which one belonged to his two sisters, and which one belonged to him and his brother...... Even the firewood room and kitchen, he didn't let go, and led the Yao family to see them one by one.

"Tonight, my grandmother and aunt will live in this house between me and my brother, and I will live with my father and mother!" Xiao Shi's eldest brother, Yu Hang, is an apprentice in a carpenter shop, and he rarely comes back. The owner of the carpenter shop was very unkind, and even when his father was injured, he only gave half a day off. The family built a house, and Yu Hang only came back in a hurry, and he became thinner.

My brother is not there, in order to save firewood, Xiaoshi sleeps on a kang with Yu Hai and Liu. But in order to show that he also has a room, he specifically said so.

Early in the morning, Yu Xiaocao followed Liu's back. For the first two days, she helped prepare the menu. Meat dishes include: braised rabbit meat, spicy stir-fried chicken, stir-fried pork slices with cabbage, radish stew, and scrambled eggs.

The vegetarian dishes are: pan-fried radish cake, stir-fried white radish, fried radish balls, crispy radish, spicy stir-fried cabbage, stewed tofu with cabbage, stir-fried cabbage, and a small stir-fried sauerkraut.